Jason Barnett wrote: > Ahhhh, methinks I have a competitor for a FileSystem Manager :) Perhaps I > misunderstand your problem, but this works fine for me (WinXP) because > realpath > [quote]Returns canonicalized absolute pathname[/quote]: > > <?php > > // we know __FILE__ is an absolute path > $file = __FILE__; > echo realpath(__FILE__) == $file ? 'The same path' : 'Not the same path'; > > ?> > > http://www.php.net/realpath
That works because the value in __FILE__ seems to be both canonicalised and absolute. For an example which breaks, realpath('/home') on my server returns '/usr/home', so your example would claim that /home is not absolute. Yet, it is. :-/ TX -- 'Every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - Arthur C Clarke 'Every sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology' - Tom Graves Email: Trejkaz Xaoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web site: http://xaoza.net/trejkaz/ Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 9EEB 97D7 8F7B 7977 F39F A62C B8C7 BC8B 037E EA73 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php